Studio Glass Influencer Runs an Inside Operation
byHe was studying ceramics at Florida Atlantic University when, on awhim, he bought a book on glassblowing. “It cost $18, which I really didn’t…
He was studying ceramics at Florida Atlantic University when, on awhim, he bought a book on glassblowing. “It cost $18, which I really didn’t…
Scott Summerfield prefers to work alone. Not surprising when you learn he was an only child who grew up on a sparsely populated barrier…
If Asheville’s rowdy street fair Bele Chere hadn’t ended in 2013, it would have turned 40 this year. Bele Chere showcased dozens of Asheville-area…
A decade ago, Kristen Muñoz of Moongirl Glass moved from Austin, Texas, to Marshall, North Carolina. After attending Penland School of Crafts, she used…
Clay was always too slow for Billy Bernstein. He wanted to see the imprint of his efforts in real time. “I was studying ceramics…
Kit Paulson worked as a furnace glassblower before transitioning into meticulously intricate glass sculpture created with a flame torch. She’s taught her techniques at…
There’s so much fanfare around glass this season, thanks to the Dale Chihuly exhibit at Biltmore Estate and six months of companion events around…
John Almaguer’s artistic epiphany wasn’t reverent or momentous. It just made him giddy — “like a kid in a candy shop,” he says. “No…
Being the first executive director of the two-year-old North Carolina Glass Center, Kari Rinn has found a labor of love. The facility in the…
Those ripples and waves in antique window panes were likely formed by human breath. That’s because glassblowers of old were relied upon to create…